Concepts of mental life across cultures: Primary analysis
Exploratory factor analysis using full datasets, Pearson correlations, and oblique transformations
In this notebook we conduct exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) on the datasets for our studies of concepts of mental life, in which each participants judged the various mental capacities of a particular target entity. We analyze datasets for adults and children from each of our five field sites: the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu.
This notebook contains the results presented in the main text, in which we use Pearson correlations with our three-point response scale (no = 0, kinda = 0.5, yes = 1); see supplemental analyses for a version of these analyses treating kinda = yes = 1 and using tetrachoric correlations.
Adults
Samples
country n
US 127
Ghana 150
Thailand 150
China 136
Vanuatu 148
Total 711Scale use
Factor retention: parallel analysis
Exploratory factor analysis
Factor loadings
Congruence
Bootstrapped congruence
Figure 3
Figure S2
Figure S3
Figure S4
Figure S5
Children
Samples
country n
US 117
Ghana 150
Thailand 152
China 131
Vanuatu 143
Total 693Scale use
Factor retention: parallel analysis
Exploratory factor analysis
Factor loadings
Congruence
See All samples, below.
Bootstrapped congruence
Figure 4
All samples
Congruence
Figure 2
Jaccard Similarity
Figure S1
Developmental comparisons
Figures S6-S10
Figure 1, version 1
